Despite the striker converting a penalty, Peixe lost 2-1 to Internacional
Neymar threw away his first opportunity to try to convince coach Carlo Ancelotti to call him up for the World Cup. Like the entire Santos team, the striker did poorly, scored a penalty goal, but didn’t avoid the goal. 2-1 defeat to Internacionalon Wednesday (18), in Vila Belmiro, for the seventh round of the Brazilian Championship.
Santos remains with six points, now in 16th place, while Inter opens the relegation zone, with five points.
Internacional started the match willing to leave the last position in the Brasileirão. To do this, the team from Rio Grande do Sul placed itself in the attacking field and tried to exchange passes with great speed, but the first most dangerous move was from Santos, with Barreal, in the fourth minute.
The visitors’ response came after nine minutes. Free, inside the area, Alerrando finished for a beautiful save by Brazão. The move motivated Inter, who began to put pressure on Santos to get the ball out. At 21, the Santos goalkeeper made a great save from Vitinho’s strong shot from outside the area.
It was only Inter and Borré appeared free in the small area, but hit over the crossbar in the 23rd minute. Detail: Neymar, isolated in midfield most of the time, practically didn’t touch the ball.
Another missing person was Gabriel Barbosabut in the 34th minute the attacker was launched by Barreal and opened the scoring, but was caught offside by the video referee.
With the excess of errors in passes, the fans present in Vila Belmiro began to lose patiencebut soon got excited about the first play involving Neymar and Gabriel Barbosa. After a good table, shirt 9 kicked out. Detail: 42 minutes.
The final minutes of the first stage showed Neymar a little more participative, with some exchanges of passes near the area, but also visibly exhausted.
Less than a minute into the second half, Inter’s first goal. After a corner, Zé Ivaldo deflected it into Brazão’s goal: 1-0.
Santos found a penalty in the 11th minute. Vitinho knocked Moses down. Neymar hit well, displaced Rochet and tied: 1-1.
The game was open. Both teams, despite technical limitations, went on the attack. They created chances, but made mistakes with their shots. In the best of them, Aguirre forced Brazão to make another important save, in the 26th minute.
From then on, the winning goal could go anywhere, but the teams made a lot of mistakes and did not successfully complete the moves. Neymar, very tired, left the field in the 43rd minute.
Inter made a final push and it worked. Carbonero grabbed a rebound from Brazão and scored Inter’s winning goal in the 50th minute. A huge boo took over Vila Belmiro, targeting Vojvoda and the Santos board.
TECHNICAL SHEET
SANTOS 1 X 2 INTERNATIONAL
SANTOS: Gabriel Brazão; Igor Vinícius, Zé Ivaldo, Adonis Frias and Escobar (Rollheiser); Willian Arão (Gabriel Menino), Christian Oliva and Neymar (Tachiano); Rony (Moisés), Barreal and Gabriel Barbosa. Coach: Juan Pablo Vojvoda.
INTERNATIONAL: Rochet; Bruno Gomes, Victor Gabriel, Felix Torres and Matheus Bahia; Bruno Henrique (Tabata), Villagra (Ronaldo) and Allan Rodriguez (Thiago Maia); Vitinho, Alerrando (Aguirre) and Borre (Carbonero). Coach: Paulo Pezzolano.
GOALS: Zé Ivaldo (against) at one minute, Neymar at 11, Carbonero at 50 minutes of the second half
YELLOW CARDS: Escobar, Vitinho, Neymar, Igor Vinícius and Carbonero.
ARBITRATOR: Davi de Oliveira Lacerda (ES).
INCOME: 10,031 fans.
PUBLIC: R$ 631.264,73.
LOCAL: Vila Belmiro, in Santos (SP).
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